Nan travels north to meet Maria Temple - now Mrs Nasmyth. The future is bright...or so it seems. A secret diary might tell a different story.

Chapter 2

For lovers of Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’...disease plunders a grim northern orphanage and Miss Temple is stuck in this story - until she’s not. Reader: she marries the excellent Reverend Nasmyth and with help from companion Nan Wilson, gets to write the pages of her own tale, an exorcism of the past and testimony of murder to come.